How to: Archive Selected Files

• Nov 13, 2018

To archive selected files, do the following:

1. Create a ZipArchive class instance.
2. Call its ZipArchive.AddFile method for each selected file.
3. To store a file without its path, call the ZipArchive.AddFile method with the “/“ parameter. The file will be placed in the root node of the archive.
4. Call the ZipArchive.Save method. The archive will be created and saved to a specified location.

This code snippet demonstrates how to create a new archive and add files to the archive root. The ZipArchive.Save method compresses data and saves the archive to a file.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/compression-library-examples-e4695

ZipExamples.cs

using DevExpress.Compression;
        public void ArchiveFiles() {
            string[] sourcefiles = this.sourceFiles;
            using (ZipArchive archive = new ZipArchive()) {
                foreach (string file in sourcefiles) {
                    archive.AddFile(file, "/");
                }
                archive.Save("Documents\\ArchiveFiles.zip");
            }
        }

ZipExamples.vb

Imports DevExpress.Compression
        Public Sub ArchiveFiles()
            Dim sourcefiles() As String = Me.sourceFiles
            Using archive As New ZipArchive()
                For Each file As String In sourcefiles
                    archive.AddFile(file, "/")
                Next file
                archive.Save("Documents\ArchiveFiles.zip")
            End Using
        End Sub